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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Mr Simon Williams" <simon_williams@mixmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: simon_williams@katamail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:48:47 +0000
Subject: Investment Offer
Dear Sir/Madam,
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile, permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you.
My name is Mr Simon Williams a 20 years old boy. I am the only Son of Late Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Williams. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i am babies.
Before the death of my father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital in Abidjan, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of USD ($8.500,000) deposited in a suspense account in the banks . He told me that he used my name (Simon Williams) as the next of Kin in depositing the money.
He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friends here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside our country, Cote d'Ivoire) that will assist me in the wise investment of the money. I have since left the money in the bank with the view of my making use of it for investment purposes after my education carrier here.
But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D'Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial centre of the country, Abidjan, where i am before, i left my country to Senegal.
For this ugly development in my country, i have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of the holding Bank before it is too late to do that. I now want to transfer it from the holding Bank and use it for investment purpose. Because of this i am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me to transfer the money into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there permanently.
If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, I am willing to offer you, 35 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Pleas tell me if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.
As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, I will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as i want to come over to stay with you permanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over. I will also send my pictures to you and shall also need yours too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those that killed my Daddy are still after me. Contact me with my althernative email : simon_williams@katamail.com
Thanks and God bless you.
Mr Simon Williams,
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